GENEVA – Roger Federer’s wife Mirka has given birth to twin girls, the world’s number one tennis player proudly announced on his website on Friday.
The 27-year-old Swiss, who has won a record 15 grand slams, said his daughters Charlene Riva and Myla Rose were born on Thursday in Switzerland.’This is the greatest day of our lives,’ Federer said on www.rogerfederer.com. ‘Mirka, Myla and Charlene are all healthy and doing very well.’Swiss media said the twins, who are the couple’s first children, were born at a private clinic in Zurich.Federer met Slovak-born Mirka Vavrinec at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 when she was still playing professional tennis. Mirka retired in 2002 due to a persistent foot injury. The couple married in April. – Nampa-Reuters
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